Sample-case.



No. 790,858. v PATENTED MAY 23. 1905. W. THOMPSON..

SAMPLE CASE.

APPLICATION FILED 1330,14, 1904.

WlTNESSES:

ATTORNEYS NTTED STATES Patented May 23, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER THOMPSON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THOMAS F. OGRADY, OF PATERSON,

NEl/V JERSEY, AND EDWARD KELLY, OF WHARTON, NEW JERSEY.

SAMPLE-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 790,858, dated May 23, 1905.

Application filed December 14, 1904. Serial No. 236,890.

To (LZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WALTER THOMPSON, a citizen of the United States, residing in Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York,

5 have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sample-Gases; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and. to letters of reference marked thereon, which forms a part of this specification.

This invention relates tosample-cases of the kind in which a series of compartments are interconnected by systems of links or levers in such manner that they can be either nested together in close compact disposition or opened out to uncover each other for the purpose of displaying their contents.

My present invention consists in certain improvements having in view to so interconnect the compartments by links or levers that one or more can be moved on said links or le- 5 vers independently of the other compartments and that, furthermore, the compartments when extended or opened out can assume a flat or horizontal disposition instead of the step-like arrangement common in previous sample-cases of this kind.

My invention will be found fully disclosed in the accompanying drawing, where in the single figure is shown a sample-case fulfilling the above and other objects of my invention,

5 5 the cover of the sample-case being shown in section and its base and compartments in end elevation.

In said drawing, a is the base of the samplecase, Z) and 0 two series of movable compart- L ments, and cl a fixed or stationary compartment formed as a part of said base.

6 is a cover which may be attached in any desired manner to the base, and thus inclose all the compartments when they are nested,

5 as seen in the drawing.

f and g are series of links or levers,,the one, f, pivotally connecting together compartment (1 and all the compartments Z) and the other, pivotally connecting compartment (Z and all the compartments 0. Each series of 5 links or levers is divided up into sets, (each comprising in the adaptation shown two links or levers,) which are pivoted at their ends to two adjacent compartments, being disposed parallel to each other and at an acute angle to 5 5 the compartments. The several sets in either series are parallel. Thus any one or more compartments may be opened out independently of the remainder, this being due to the fact that each set of levers only connects two compartments.

It will be noticed that the compartments as shown in the drawing can be made, when opened out, to assume either a step-like formation or a flat horizontal arrangement. 5 This depends on the relative arrangement of the links orlevers. If the links or levers in each set are made to overlap each other sufficiently, when any compartment is swung up and out in order to open out the series its in- 7 nermost lower corner will clear the uppermost outer corner of the next-subjacent compartment. This is shown in the right-hand compartments in the drawing. In the lefthand series of compartments the levers overlap each other, but not sufliciently so that the lower inner corner of any one compartment will clear the upper outer corner of the nextsubjacent compartment. In order that the compartments when opened out may find sub; stantial support for holding themin the proper opened-out disposition, each lever in each set for the right-hand series has a projection 7L, adapted to take against its complementary lever, while one in each set of the left-hand se- 5 ries may have a toe j on the pivotal portion thereof, adapted to abut against a lug j on the side ofthe corresponding compartment.

It will be understood that the two series of levers shown in the drawing have their repli- 9 cae at the other ends of the series of compartments.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of a series of compartments, parallel links or levers pivotally connecting said compartments together and arranged in sets each pivotally connecting together two adjacent compartments, the set of links or levers for any two adjacent compartments being independent of the set for any other adjacent compartments, and toes on the pivotal portions of said links or levers and lugs on the compartments for limiting the movement of said links or levers, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a series of compartments, parallel links or levers pivotally connecting said compartments together and arranged in sets each pivotally connecting to- 

